sometime we just need a little win in our life

Great, let me know.

Also, I saw you posted from the Ashmolean, I'm based in Oxon.

One group of devs (daniel, fiatjaf) are putting spyware all over nostr, and other group (Vitor etc.) are adding Tor. End result is that users lose both privacy and speed. Strange to observe. I hope we can get back to serving our users well.

Agree 100%. There is a balance to be struck, and it cant be done overnight. Just one baby step at a time. If you do your little bit, everyone else will too.

I am in the UK, so would be difficult (only ships with Euro plug), but I already have a BitAxe which I've just been discussing here:

It seems that the Braiins is more powerful, but less efficient.

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Bitcoin can be used for storage, but it's a bad idea, because bitcoin was not designed as a storage system. The community can be rightly angry, and node runners furious, with free-loaders that abuse the system that way.

Nostr relays can be used for storage, but it's a bad idea, because nostr was designed to transmit notes, not store them. The community can be rightly angry, and relay operators furious, with free loaders that abuse the system in this way.

Solid, while not perfect, was designed for mass storage. While not perfect, and still buggy, It offers smart data, social aspects, tried and tested economies of scale, at blazingly fast speeds, and working business models. Because it is just an extension of the web. It needs some work, but it will get there. In fact solid came before nostr, and nostr was designed to slot into the bigger system.

All good engineers use the right too for the right job. This is how we take back the internet, and free ourselves from the algorithms. Or in fact make the algorithms work for us. No wars need to be fought, we just build, run, and use the code.

Even the budget sausage?

#FreetheSausages

BBC news websites menu bars from 2016 and today - 2024.

Notice any difference?

We’ve got the better architecture for an open permissionless network than the alternatives. We need to make sure our users know how to join, find their people, and make using Nostr a habit. Otherwise people will be sucked back in to more centralized protocols. nostr:note1yptu6sgnpmqydwd2g94rl0x94fnn7m0hjyk3pmc4a3jccztpaexqhkwtcd

If there is any risk for investors in the markets today, it's the risk of sitting on the sidelines--waiting for the terrible and *inevitable* #recession, constantly heralded by Doom and Gloomers--while risk assets and, especially, #bitcoin melt faces in 2025.

With a 12-14 month outlook, I continue to think that this is a terrible time to be overly bearish or conservative.

#macro

#investing

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War is always bad for the economy.

You can see this clearly if you ignore all the money, the pieces of paper with dead presidents inked on them, and the bits in the computers. Money can psychologically manipulate people, but fundamentally money is just an accounting system. You can always look strictly at the real economy, real goods and services, and see whether things are improving or degrading.

War directs people away from production and towards destruction. People who could be growing carrots or building iPhones instead build bombs that are one-time use, and destroy not only the materials and effort that went into building them, but also the target. In aggregate war causes people to produce less and destroy more.

Henry Hazlitt's "Economics in One Lesson" Chapter II "The Broken Window" explains how this can be true while at the same time there can be the appearance of being good for the economy.

"A young hoodlum, say, heaves a brick through the window of a baker's shop. The shopkeeper runs out furious, but the boy is gone. A crowd gathers, and begins to stare with quiet satisfaction at the gaping hole in the window and the shattered glass over the bread an pies. After a while the crowd feels the need for philosophic reflection. And several of its members are almost certain to remind each other or the baker that, after all, the misfortune has its bright side. It will make business for some glazier. As they begin to think of this they elaborate upon it. How much does a new plate glass window cost? Two hundred and fifty dollars? That will be quite a sum. After all, if windows were never broken, what would happen to the glass business? Then, of course, the thing is endless. The glazier will have $250 more to spend with other merchants, and this in turn will have $250 more to spend with still other merchants, and so ad infinitum. The smashed window will go on providing money and employment in every-widing circles. The logical conclusion from all this would be, if the crowd drew it, that the little hoodlum who threw the brick, far from being a public menace, was a public benefactor.

Now let us take another look. The crowd is at least right in its first conclusion. This little act of vandalism will in the first instance mean more business for some glazier. The glazer will be no more unhappy to learn of the incident than the undertaker to learn of a death. But the shopkeeper will be out $250 that he was planning to spend for a new suit. Because he has had to replace a window, he will have to go without the suit (or some equivalent need or luxury). Instead of having a window and $250 he now has merely a window. Or, as he was planning to buy the suit that very afternoon, instead of having both a window and a suit he must be content with the window and no suit. If we think of him as a part of the community, the community has lost a new suit that might otherwise have come into being, and is just that much poorer.

The glazier's gain of business, in short, is merely the tailor's loss of business. No new "employment" has been added. The people in the crowd were thinking only of two parties to the transaction, the baker and the glazier. They had forgotten the potential third party involved, the tailor. They forgot him precisely because he will not now enter the scene. They will see the new window in the next day or two. They will never see the extra suit, precisely because it will never be made. They see only what is immediately visible to the eye."

-Henry Hazlitt, Economics in One Lesson

I am a mathematician by education and this is my first social media post. Glad to learn about the idea of Nostr. I am interested in the concept of a decentralized world without censorship of money and information.

#introductions

Tonight I heard someone say, "I was told people should never do ayahuasca because founders in silicon valley are doing it and then walking away from their projects."

Right, they probably realized what they were doing was fruitless and started the journey to find meaning in their lives.

Sometimes that's what it's like to exit the matrix.